Railway-tie.



No. 888,729. l PATENTED MAY J. H. NORTON.

RALWAY TIE.

ARPLUJATIQN FILED s211123, 1907.

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J. H. NORTON.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLIOATION FILED Sinha. 1907.A

Q @Foo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 4

JOSEPH H. NORTON, OF MULLINVILLE, KANSAS.

T o all whom itmay concern:

Be itV known that I, JOSEPH H. NORTON, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Mullinville, in the county of Kiowa and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Railway-Ties, ofwhich the fol owing is a specification.

This invention relates to railroads and more particularly totiestherefor and has for its object to rovide a Yplastic railroad tiewhich is simp e in structure and arrangementand which is provided withmeans for attaching rails thereto. 4

Another object is to provide a tie including strengthening means of anovel arrange'- ment.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the followingdescription and it will be understood that changes in the specificstructure sho-wn and described maybe made within the scope of the claimswithout I departing from the spirit of the invention.

I gitudinally extending parallel strengthening In the drawings forming aportion of'this speciiication, and inwhich like numerals of referenceindicate similar parts in the several views, Figure `1 is a transversesection of a' track laid upon the present form of tie; Fig. 2 is ahorizontal longitudinal section of the tie; Fig. 3 is a top plan of thetie; Fig. 4 is a transverse section through one of the wear platesonline 4 4 of Fig. 3. i Fig. 5 is an elevational View of a modied .formof tie.

Referring now to the drawings, the present tie comprises a rectangularplastic body portion having embedded therewithin two lonmembers 6 and?.Each of these strengthening members comprises a plurality of rela tivelysmall metallic rods 8 which are bound together by a continuous wire 9wrapped therearound and a connecting wire 1 0 is engaged through theinner portions ofthe alternate helices of the two wires 9, the wire 1()being engaged through the helices of one wire 9 and then through thoseof the other vso that it traverses the space between the twostrengthening members diagonally. A wire 11 is engaged through theremalning 'helices of the two wires in a similar manner.

Specification of Letters iPatent. Application filed September 3,1907.Serial No. 391,154.

the tie may be formed with separate- -end portions, as shown in Fig. '5.

each or" said members including a Patented May 2e, 190e.`

There is thus formed 'a web of interlaced wires between the twostrengthening mem.- bers. i

A recess 12 is forinedin the upper face 'of the-tie adjacent to each endthereof, and in each of these recesses thereis disposed a transverselyextending wear plate 13. 'Openings 14 are formed through the wear plates.and'registerwithinteriorl threaded i e'ni P P P ples 15 embeddedvertical yin the tie. Longitu dinally alining rail-engaging clampmembers 16 are disposed-upon the wear'plates in spaced relation at theirinner ends and have openings 17 registering with those of the wear atesfor the reception of bolts 18 engaged through the clamps and wear platesand into the ni ples.

In use, the rails are disposed upon the wear` plates' between the clampmembers, thelatter being'positioned to clamp against the base flanges ofthe rail, and it will be understood that the wear plates protect the tiefrom the rails. By' reason of the character of the strengtheningmembers, they are possessed of some resilience and thus, should the tiebecome cracked, the will permit the ends thereolc to move slightlyindependently of each other, and'thus prevent the appearance of morethan one crack. If desired, plastic What is claimed is:

In a tie, the combination with a plastic.

body portion, a spaced rail attaching means carried thereby, a pluralityof longitudinally extending strengthening members embedded within thebody portion in spaced relation,

lurality of rods and a binding Ywire wrappedl' around said rods, and aplurality' of wlres engaged beneath the helices of said binding wiresand extending diagonally across the-'space' between theV strengthening`members.

f In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.'

in presence of two witnesses. y

JOSEPH H. NORTON. llVitnesses:v

I. B. KEs'rERsoN, H. D. BROWN,

